{"id":109793,"date":"2020-07-11T10:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/japan-cleared-to-buy-105-lockheed-martin-f-35-stealth-fighters-for-23bn"},"modified":"2020-07-11T10:43:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:43:05","slug":"japan-cleared-to-buy-105-lockheed-martin-f-35-stealth-fighters-for-23bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/japan-cleared-to-buy-105-lockheed-martin-f-35-stealth-fighters-for-23bn","title":{"rendered":"Japan cleared to buy 105 Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters for $23bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-cleared-to-buy-105-lockheed-martin-f-35-stealth-fighters-for-23bn2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan has been cleared by the US State Department to buy 105 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters as part of a package worth an estimated $23.11 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The potential F-35 deal is the second largest foreign military sale approved by Washington in history, behind a $29.4 billion sale of Boeing F-15SA fighters and associated weapons to Saudi Arabia in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Japan F-35 Mt Fuji hi-res\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-cleared-to-buy-105-lockheed-martin-f-35-stealth-fighters-for-23bn3.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1134\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has been cleared by the US State Department to buy 105 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters as part of a package worth an estimated $23.11 billion. The potential F-35 deal is the second largest foreign military sale approved by Washington in history, behind a $29.4 billion sale of Boeing F-15SA fighters and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}